Aesthetics category: 1179 books
by Gianni Vattimo
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly revised for English readers, the book begins with a challenge to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, who viewed art as a metaphysical aspect of reality...
Why Only Art Can Save Us
Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, but the ones that political...
Regional Aesthetics
Mapping UK Media Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book is about forms of media that have reflected or increased consciousness of - a sense of place or a regional identity. From landscape painting in the Romantic era to newspaper coverage of devolution, the chapters explore, through contextualized case studies, the aesthetics of a wide range of local, regional and grassroots forms of media.
by Georg W. F. Hegel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a late 18th and early 19th century German philosopher, was one of the foremost thinkers of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. He created...
Living Poetically
Kierkegaard's Existential Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1994
Living Poetically is the first book to focus primarily on Kierkegaard's existential aesthetics as opposed to traditional aesthetic features of his writings such as the use of pseudonyms, literary techniques and figures, and literary criticism. Living Poetically traces the development of the concept...
Feeling Beauty
The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry.
In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions...
The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust
Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body’s heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal. From literary motif or psychosomatic symptom to revolutionary gesture...
The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought
The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn’t be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it is embodied. We have a deep visceral, emotional, and qualitative relationship to the world—and any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory...
Fun, Taste, & Games
An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.
“Fun” is somewhat ambiguous. If something is fun, is it pleasant? Entertaining? Silly? A way to trick students into learning? Fun also has baggage—it seems inconsequential, embarrassing, child's play. In Fun, Taste,...
by Theodor W. Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of his greatest works.
The lectures cover a wide range of topics, from an intense analysis of the work of Georg Lukács to...
Hannah Arendt and Friedrich Schiller on Kants Aesthetics
The Public Character of the Beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book analyzes how the public character of judgments of taste makes implicit statements in moral and political philosophy. The framework that relates aesthetic, moral, and political aspects into such a triadic relationship is an implicit conception of freedom. In «The Critique of Judgment» Kant...
Thomas Reid’s Lectures on the Fine Arts
Transcribed from the Original Manuscript, with an Introduction and Notes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The past few years have seen a revival of interest in Thomas Reid's philosophy. His moral theory has been studied by D. D. Raphael (The Moral Sense) and his entire philosophical position by S. A. Grave (The Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense). Prior to both, A. D. Woozley gave us the first modern...
Border Aesthetics
Concepts and Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject’s conceptual...
Under Representation
The Racial Regime of Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
There has recently been a significant renewal of interest in aesthetics in both philosophy and in literary and cultural criticism, but this is the only book that addresses head-on the role that aesthetics has played in shaping modern conceptions of race and of representation.